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May 5, 2010. ( 2010-05-05) (United States) Running time. 88 minutes. Language. English. The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia is a 2009 documentary film directed by Julien Nitzberg chronicling the White family of Boone County, West Virginia .
Jesco White was born in Bandytown, a tiny community located in the Appalachian Mountains of Boone County, West Virginia, to an unknown family who abandoned him and he was adopted by Donald Ray White (1927–1985), also known as D. Ray White, and Bertie Mae White. White's adoptive father was profiled in the Smithsonian Folkways documentary ...
Mountain dancer, entertainer. Years active. 1940s–1985. Spouse. Bertie Mae White. Children. 13. Donald Ray White, more commonly known as D. Ray White (April 17, 1927 – July 2, 1985), was an American mountain dancer and entertainer, and the patriarch of the White family. He has been featured in several American documentary films that detail ...
Julien Nitzberg. Julien Nitzberg (born 1965) is an American screenwriter, stage writer, lyricist, theater director and film director, best known in the film world as the director of the documentary The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia. In the theater world, Nitzberg is best known for writing the book and lyrics for two musicals.
Mountain white. Mountain whites were white Americans (usually poor) living in Appalachia and the inland region of the Antebellum South. They were generally small farmers, who inhabited the valleys of the Appalachian range from western Virginia spanning down to northern Georgia and northern Alabama. [ 1]
Boone County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 21,809. [ 1] Its county seat is Madison. [ 2] Boone County is part of the Charleston, WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. Leading industries and chief agricultural products in Boone County include coal, lumber, natural gas, tobacco, and ...
He played professionally in the National Football League(NFL) and Canadian Football League(CFL). He played college footballfor the West Virginia Mountaineersand was selected by the Miami Dolphinsin the second round of the 2009 NFL draft. White was also a baseballoutfielder.
Location of Whitesville in Boone County, West Virginia. / 37.98139°N 81.53417°W / 37.98139; -81.53417. Whitesville is a town and former coal town in Boone County, West Virginia, United States, along the Big Coal River. The population was 361 at the 2020 census. [2] Whitesville was incorporated on August 15, 1935, by the Boone County ...